10.x and ACARD |
November, 19, 2002 5:50 AM |
yeh |
PM8600 w/ 180 megs RAM, Apple DVD ROM drive (ATA) and IBM 40 gig (120GXP ATA) connected to an ACARD pci card. ______________________ I've got both 10.1 and 10.2, neither of which I'm able to install on an IBM GXP120 connected to an ACARD AHARD 66 PCI card (bought from OWC). The drive is fine when I use it with OS9.1, but when I try to install OSX w/ XPost-Facto 2.2.4 (2.2.3 or 2.2) I get a long long delay then OS9.1 boots back up. I've got the IBM partitioned into 2 parts-- the first is a 38gig partition which I'm trying to install OSX on. The second is a 1 gig that I have OS9.1 on. I have all the native SCSI devices disconnected (I thought I was having a problem from the native SCSI). When I try to boot into OSX via XPostFacto, the screen turns dark...then about a minute passes, and the OS9.1 partition begins to boot. When I try to force the CDRom to boot, (c button or cmd-opt-shift-delete), the ? Icon is displayed, and the OSX CD is ejected. I was able to install OS10.1 on the native SCSI drive, so I know that it's possible. Does anyone have a word of advice/help? BTW- I've played w/ the speed throttle--from 1 to 24, all without success. I've attempt to boot in verbose mode, but OSX doesn't even seem to load---I dont get any text messages. Only the flashing ? icon. TIA |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 21, 2002 5:42 AM |
yeh |
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Thanks for the tip. However, my ACARD shipped w/ the latest firmware. I was finally able to get the jaguar installer to run...about 1 month ago, someone mentioned removing the ethernet wires from the RJ45 slot during the installation. Voila! The installer CD is installing as I type this! |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 20, 2002 12:46 PM |
gchron |
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I just read your response about the firmware. Well when I purchased the card it had the original firmware of the ATA 100 card. Try to download one utility named AV utility. This discribes you the current firmware version (It works only under OS9) if it is alder update it with the latest one from their site. |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 20, 2002 12:43 PM |
gchron |
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I have an ACARD 133 card witch I had updated to the latest firmware. I do not have any problem to boot into X. The only thing that I had seen in the acard site is that if you want to intall a bigger HD there is a need to apply the laterst firmware. The card is appeared as SCSI and I did not partisioned it. I have the 922, 10.22 and all my data in the same 20GB partition with no any problem. |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 20, 2002 10:37 AM |
ian |
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Well, I have the SIIG ATA/133 card, which I have been told is an ACARD chipset. I have a 40 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 5400 as the master on the first bus, and a 120 GB Samsung SpinPoint 5400 as the slave. I have 10.2.2 installed on a 3 GB partition, and 9.1 on a 500 MB partition on the Maxtor and have the rest for data. Works just peachy. While I know that the 8GB limit is supposed to be only for IDE disks, why go through hassles? Besides, you can trim down an X install pretty nicely. I got it running fine on an old 1 GB SCSI drive before I got the card and IDE drives. |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 20, 2002 4:40 AM |
yeh |
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I just bought the card, so I assumed that it would be the latest firmware. The card mimicks as a SCSI adapter and NOT as an IDE device. The master device on the adapter would be the HD and the slave is the DVD drive. I used the Drive Setup from OS 9.1. |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 19, 2002 2:53 PM |
marcush |
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Does the card appear as a SCSI adapter in OS 9.1? I ask this because if the card appears as an IDE adapter then the 8Gig install partition limit would come into effect. However, I don't think any of the Acard adapters pose as IDE devices. So, what follows may help. What did you use to format the drive? I have found 9.x.x's drive setup to be the most reliable. I have an Western Digital 80Gig 7200rpm Special Edition drive w/a 20Gig 10.2.2 partition as the 1st partition, followed by 3 1.2Gig partitions for 9.2.2, 9.1, Classic, and a 43Gig partition for data. I tried formatting the drive under 10.2.2 with disk utility on the drive that I migrated from, but the installer would not run until I reformatted and partitioned with drive setup under 9.1. |
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RE: 10.x and ACARD |
November, 19, 2002 7:32 AM |
gregoryy |
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Does the card have the latest available firmware? |